โAces High,โ a song performed by Serayah on the third season of Empire, suffers from the pitfalls of the soundtrack cut.ย
Ah, the pitfalls of the television soundtrack. Single โAces Highโ appeared on the penultimate episode of hip-hop drama Empire. Performed by Tiana (Serayah), โAces Highโ plays upon clichรฉs.ย In other words, the record sounds generic and inauthentic. ย The production work is in line with contemporary R&B and hip-hop, which is expected, but doesnโt make it โthe second coming.โ While the record isnโt particularly distinct, it does have a Latin, urban-pop quality.
Final Thoughts
All in all, it is slickly produced, even if it lacks that extra oomph.ย Ultimately, thereโs little here to rave about โ this is the type of soundtrack record you listen to and you ask yourself, so what?
Serayah (Empire Cast) โข โAces Highโ โข Twentieth Century Fox โข Release: 12.2.16
Photo Credit: Twentieth Century Foxย